Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-12-08T21:58:53Z

On Saturday, 8 of December 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 03:40:49 +0100 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
>
> > This message contains a list of some regressions from 2.6.23 which have been
> > reported since 2.6.24-rc1 was released and for which there are no fixes in the
> > mainline that I know of.  If any of them have been fixed already, please let me
> > know.
> >
> > If you know of any other unresolved regressions from 2.6.23, please let me know
> > either and I'll add them to the list.
>
> Twenty nine, huh?
>
> It would be useful if these records were sorted in date-of-reportage order
> and had a date stamp so we could see how long they've been hanging about.

They are sorted by the bugzilla number which reflects the date-of-reportage
order pretty well. For a techincal reason, it's easier to me if they're sorted
like this.

Adding date stamps should be easy, tough, I'll try to add them to the next
report.

> Something to think about for the post-2.6.24 regression if you'll be handling
> those?

Yes, I'm going to handle the post-2.6.24 regressions too (in the hope there
will be less of them ;-)).

> > Subject : leds: ledtrig-timer calls sleeping function from invalid context
> > Submitter : Márton Németh <nm127@freemail.hu>
> > References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9264
> > Handled-By : Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
> > Patch : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=13493&action=view
>
> That patch has been merged (dc47206e552c0850ad11f7e9a1fca0a3c92f5d65) and
> assuming Márton has tested the latest git snapshot
> (ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots) successfully we can
> cross it off?

Yes, will drop.

Thanks,
Rafael